MAY 22, 1844: The Stephens-Townsend-Murphy party, which included Sarah Armstrong Montgomery, left Iowa and traveled to San Francisco. Eleven years later, Sarah married for the third time, the marriage of her first two husbands both having ended in sensational fashion.

MAY 22, 1844: The Stephens-Townsend-Murphy party, which included Sarah Armstrong Montgomery, left Iowa and traveled to San Francisco. Eleven years later, Sarah married for the third time, the marriage of her first two husbands both having ended in sensational fashion.

REPOST The Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party, consisting of ten pioneer families, left Iowa on May 22, 1844 and was the first wagon train to cross Donner Pass…

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MAY 21, 1978: The second of three San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Soapbox Derbies took place at McLaren Park.

MAY 21, 1978: The second of three San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Soapbox Derbies took place at McLaren Park.

In 1933 the first soapbox derby was held in Dayton, Ohio at the height of the Depression to lift civic morale. 45,000 spectators arrived to…

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